[llvm-dev] Creating llvm/DebugInfo/Msf folder

[Zachary Turner via llvm-dev]

I actually regret doing all caps for PDB, and there seems to be mixed use
of all caps / rolling caps even with dwarf (some places say DWARF, others
say Dwarf).  I don't feel too strongly aside from the minor inconvenience
of having to change thousands of occurrences where I already used rolling
caps though :-/

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:52 AM Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:

> While I personally prefer the rolling caps convention for initialisms, all
> caps is the more widely used convention across LLVM. In fact,
> lib/DebugInfo/PDB is right next to it, so I'd go with that.
>
> Other than that, yeah, sounds good. :)
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Zachary Turner via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If you don't care about Debug Info or PDB files you can stop reading now.
>>
>> Just wanted to give a heads up that I'm planning to add a new folder
>> under DebugInfo called Msf.
>>
>> MSF stands for Multi-Stream File and is the container format used by PDB
>> debug info files.  However, MSF by itself is generic enough that it need
>> not contain PDB data, and in fact I can think of at least one other case of
>> MSF files being used to store non-PDB data.
>>
>> Currently, we have llvm/DebugInfo/PDB which contains both our knowledge
>> of the PDB format as well as our knowledge of the MSF format.  And worse,
>> some of this knowledge of MSF files is in DebugInfo/CodeView.  And in some
>> cases we are saying PDB when we really mean MSF, and in some cases we are
>> saying MSF when we really mean PDB.
>>
>> To make the distinction clearer, and to provide a theoretical means by
>> which someone could use MSF to store non-PDB data, I have a patch to move
>> all our of MSF knowledge into a separate library.
>>
>> I'm planning to commit this later today, and mostly just wanted to give a
>> heads up in case people are surprised when they see a new directory pop up
>> under DebugInfo.
>>
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